Today’s Date: July 30th
Show Title: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Director: Marshall B Garrett
Assistant Directors: Chase O’Neill and Olivia Pedigo
Production Intern: Abraham Joyner-Meyers
Rehearsal Room: Deming/Blackfriars
What we did
The Peri-Clan started our morning rehearsal in Deming with our usual circle of eye-contact and warm ups. After a run though of our song and dance (with our full band of guitar, piano, and clarinet), we dived back into scene work, dealing with physical distance on stage in preparation for our evening rehearsal at the Blackfriars. During our evening rehearsal on the stage, we did a cue-to-cue run of the show lead by our RDAs, then a full run of the show. Our next chance to use the stage will be our dress rehearsal!
Quick and Quotable
From the play
GOWER: Where we left him on the sea, we there him left,
Where driven before the winds, he is arrived.
From the director
MARSHALL: This is a play about discovery. We need to discover it in front of the audience.
From the cast
CAMPER: [referring to Marshall’s description of 6 feet as the “kiss or kill” zone] We’ve got to be 1 Abe-meter away from each other.
[I was called in to lie on the stage to demonstrate the appropriate distance.]
Production Insights
After seeing the ASC touring troupe’s production of Antigone, a play full of oaths and prayers to the gods, our cast dealt with what it looks like to make a prayer to a god. Unlike in Antigone, a god appears on stage repeatedly during Pericles. Does the physical gesture of prayer change for a god that is present instead of merely abstract?
Abraham Joyner-Meyers
Abraham Joyner-Meyers is a fiddler, a juggler, and a huge Shakespeare nerd. He completed watching the Shakespearean canon in the fall after seeing ASC’s production of The Fall of King Henry (Henry VI, Part 3). His passion for the Bard also led him to attend ASCTC for two summers, where he acted in Two Gentleman of Veronaand Much Ado About Nothing. When Abe is not furiously reading, seeing, or acting in Shakespeare plays, he’ll often be found teaching himself to play new instruments, dancing at contras and with Morris teams, or training with his school archery team. He just completed his freshman year in the dual degree program between Harvard University and Berklee College of Music.